Guarding the Czar.
Great precautions aro taken in St. Petersburg every timo the Czar drives out. Before the carriage or tho sledgo loaves the Anifcchkoff Palace tho poJico aro informed by telephone as tv the direction in which the Czar contemplates driving. Tho ordinary police . force is immediately doubled all along the way, and the especial corps of scouLs aro stationed on each footway.
Those scouts are mostly privates or sub-officers who have served their time. They form a brigade of several hundred men, who wear civilian dress and receive rather higher wages. They follow the Czar as his shadow. They went with him to Skiernievice, Kremsier, Finland and to tho Crimea. At Gntschino and.
Peterhof they form the inner circle of the guards "surrounding the palace. One sees them there concealing themselves to the best of their ability behind trees, shrubs and bushes.
The Czar is quite against these strict precautions, but the police assert that it is impossible to act otherwise.
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Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 143, 18 June 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)
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